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Volha was born in 1989 in a small town in Belarus. She often says that a person is born looking like their parents, but dies as the person they decide to become.
Raised in a modest family and in an environment where many beliefs limited the courage to live freely, she developed an early and powerful hunger for life, knowledge, and opportunity. At the age 13 she began working, selling vegetables from her family’s garden to buy books. At 17 she started traveling as a UNESCO volunteer, discovering the world and gradually forming her own perspective on life.
When she first saw the ocean at 18 y.o. , its vastness became a symbol of another reality one far wider than the world she had grown up in. From that moment, she decided to follow her talents and inner calling, believing that a personal path could have meaning not only for one person, but for others as well.
From the age of 20 to 30, Volha traveled the world as a singer, visiting more than forty countries. She lived in spiritual communities and ashrams, studying different cultures, traditions, and forms of art. In Japan she met her future husband, with whom she later began building a life in the United States.
A deep interest in human nature led her to work with people: during the 2020 pandemic she began consulting clients as a psychosomatic therapist and hypnotherapist, gradually incorporating art-therapy techniques into her practice.
After the birth of her daughter, creativity and visual art returned to the center of her life. In 2025 she began creating textured mountain paintings inspired by her time near Everest. Built with acrylic and sculptural mediums, these works emphasize physical texture and monumental presence, reflecting themes of resilience, inner strength and human ability to rise beyond limitations. Within the first month, her works were selected by juries in art competitions in Russia, London and the United States.
In May 2025 she participated in her
first group exhibition in Northern California, continuing to exhibit and take part in other local events, commercial and charitable, such as garden tours, studio tours, and Banners on Parade, Honeycomb Project, etc.
In March 2026 she opened her first solo exhibition of textured landscapes at the Atrium Gallery in El Dorado Hills.
She later started working on a large-scale oil painting series titled
“Being a Woman.” These works shift from textured landscapes toward
psychological figurative painting. Typically measuring 36 × 36 inches and larger, each piece requires more than fifty hours of studio work.
In these artworks she addresses the
tension many women experience between social expectations and personal freedom between motherhood and ambition, relationships and independence.
As a self-taught oil painter, Volha approaches each portrait as both artistic exploration and personal transformation. Entering the unknown process of oil painting, she experiences the act of creation as a way of moving through vulnerability and inner tension in search of harmony.
Works from this series have been published in international and local art catalogs.
Through her paintings, Volha seeks to create a space of recognition and support. Her art speaks to women moving through similar inner experiences and reminds them that they are not alone.